Mass Killing In South Carolina Goes Unreported By National Media

By Tom Knighton

A mass shooting is generally described as an attack involving a firearm and the killing of three or more people at one time. While some quibble on that definition, it’s at least a starting place. While some have a looser definition, few argue that such an attack isn’t a mass shooting.

So, if we take that definition and broaden it just a bit, a mass killing is any incident where three or more people are killed, right?

Then just why is no one in the national media talking about the mass killing this past weekend in Charleston, SC?

An incident report released in a quadruple homicide Saturday morning at a home in Charleston County describes the scene investigators found when they arrived.

The coroner’s office identified the victims as 72-year-old Joseph Manigault, 69-year-old Rose Manigault, 42-year-old Kenya Manigault and 15-year-old Faith Manigault.

All were listed as being from Mount Pleasant, though their home is outside of the city limits in an unincorporated part of Charleston County.

Why isn’t the media at least talking about this? After all, wouldn’t this bolster their narrative that guns are bad?

Oh, wait. Maybe it’s because the murder weapon wasn’t a gun.

The four victims all died from blunt trauma, …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms